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Trillion in cuts over the next decade, the sequester, which in latin means, dumb politicians destroying defense, the penalty clause for sequester says, if you fail, super-committee, well take $600 billion out of the defense department as a pun nashment. weve already taken $487 billion out of the defense department. if you have these automatic defense cuts because the super-committees failure here is what leon panetta, our defense secretary said would be the consequences. it would decimate our de...

Have been passed into law by congress and signed by president obama. the list is not short, but most notably infrastructure spending was always a bipartisan idea until republicans turned against it under president obama. even the dreaded individual mandate came from the conservative heritage foundation, and was the republican answer to hillary clintons health care proposal. the most recent head scratching example is the republican effort to stop defense cuts. the sequester road show will be a co...

Even the dreaded individual mandate came from the conservative heritage foundation, and was the republican answer to hillary clintons health care proposal. the most recent head scratching example is the republican effort to stop defense cuts. the sequester road show will be a coordinated effort by republicans to barn storm swing states and one of their prime arguments will be how many jobs will be lost. but wait. werent republicans the ones who said government doesnt create jobs? >> economic gro...

Exactly where the public is and respond accordingly. >> did speaker boehner seemed to be engaging in some speaker revisionist today, the name those in washington who had given the spending cuts last year. lets listen to what he said. >> the sequester is happening because the president didnt lead. he wanted an increase in the debt ceiling so he wouldnt have to deal with it twice. the president hasnt lifted a fipger to work with the congress on jobs or to revolve these big issues. >> congressman, ...

Lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 while these republicans want to raise our retirement age to 70. the reason the french can afford it is were subsidizing their military. >> under this budget. and when you raise about what theyre doing in terms of the budget and the priorities, republicans have bought wholehearted into this ryan budget. its devastating to the poor. remember, 62% of the cuts target low-income programs. thats $3.3 trillion in cuts. yet the budget boosts defense spending. it in...

Line with the president and the administration to end this operation by 2014. we saw the president at the nato summit earlier this month. he has international support. so i think the public is very much in line with the president and the administration on this issue. and a large part of the public would like to see this operation end perhaps even sooner than the 2014 timeline that the administration has set out. >> felicia, lets talk more about the politics of washington and the pentagon. dig de...

Budget. what we ended up with yesterday was essentially a charade where they showed up and made statements. it was about politics. nothing got done in the best interest of the people of the country. putting a plan in place, growing the economy and creating jobs. >> im going to get senator conrad to respond to you and these issues in a few minutes. lets get to whether theres any sort of possibility or chance that tax reform is taken up before the election or, no matter what, its the last six week...

Bill kristol, juan williams and krauthammer. charles? >> its remarkable what we heard from the president. the secretary of defense said last week in testimony if sequester goes in effect it will have a devastating effect on the military. endanger the security of the united states. is the president a week later said he will insist, the sequester, the automatic cut in defense. he was awol on this deal. he had no interest in serious outcome. the increase on tax revenue was supposedly one thing that...

Bill kristol, juan williams and krauthammer. charles? >> its remarkable what we heard from the president. the secretary of defense said last week in testimony if sequester goes in effect it will have a devastating effect on the military. endanger the security of the united states. is the president a week later said he will insist, the sequester, the automatic cut in defense. he was awol on this deal. he had no interest in serious outcome. the increase on tax revenue was supposedly one thing that...

Ourselves. the automatic spending cuts andy is quester and how we got there and what its going to mean to people. the white house is unintentionally or intentionally saying lets make the press the issue rather than what they did. to people out in the real world, the issue is these automatic spending cuts and the human toll they are going to bring to many people and many families. >> i want to talk about the news of the day that is important. the sequester. before i do that, david axelrod is a sm...